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|[](/LAL) **103 – 114** [](/DEN)|
|**Box Scores: [NBA](http://www.nba.com/game/LAL-vs-DEN-0042300151/box-score) – [Yahoo](https://sports.yahoo.com/nba/scoreboard/)**|
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|**GAME SUMMARY**|
|**Location:** Ball Arena (19731), **Clock:** Q4 :00.0|
|**Officials:** John Goble, Eric Dalen, and Nick Buchert|
|**Team**|**Q1**|**Q2**|**Q3**|**Q4**|**Total**|
|:—|:–|:–|:–|:–|:–|
|Los Angeles Lakers|33|27|18|25|103|
|Denver Nuggets|25|32|32|25|114|
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|**TEAM STATS**|
|**Team**|**PTS**|**FG**|**FG%**|**3P**|**3P%**|**FT**|**FT%**|**OREB**|**TREB**|**AST**|**PF**|**STL**|**TO**|**BLK**|
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|Los Angeles Lakers|103|39-79|49.4%|8-29|27.6%|17-19|89.5%|6|45|22|15|3|12|7|
|Denver Nuggets|114|47-102|46.1%|15-42|35.7%|5-6|83.3%|15|53|27|20|7|4|4|
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|**PLAYER STATS**|
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**[](/LAL) Los Angeles Lakers**|**MIN**|**PTS**|**FGM-A**|**3PM-A**|**FTM-A**|**ORB**|**DRB**|**REB**|**AST**|**STL**|**BLK**|**TO**|**PF**|**±**|
|Rui Hachimura^SF|30:53|7|2-4|1-2|2-2|0|3|3|1|0|0|1|1|-10|
|LeBron James^PF|40:33|27|10-16|3-5|4-5|2|4|6|8|1|1|7|1|-9|
|Anthony Davis^C|44:18|32|12-23|0-4|8-9|3|11|14|5|0|4|2|3|-12|
|Austin Reaves^SG|36:46|13|5-9|2-6|1-1|0|4|4|3|0|1|0|1|-12|
|D’Angelo Russell^PG|40:53|13|6-20|1-9|0-0|0|3|3|3|2|0|1|3|2|
|Spencer Dinwiddie|13:07|0|0-0|0-0|0-0|0|2|2|1|0|0|0|1|-12|
|Taurean Prince|20:25|11|4-7|1-3|2-2|0|4|4|0|0|1|0|0|0|
|Gabe Vincent|07:42|0|0-0|0-0|0-0|1|0|1|1|0|0|1|3|-4|
|Jaxson Hayes|04:23|0|0-0|0-0|0-0|0|3|3|0|0|0|0|2|2|
|Max Christie|00:00|0|0-0|0-0|0-0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|
|Maxwell Lewis|00:00|0|0-0|0-0|0-0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|
|Jarred Vanderbilt|00:00|0|0-0|0-0|0-0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|
|Jalen Hood-Schifino|00:00|0|0-0|0-0|0-0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|
|Cam Reddish|00:00|0|0-0|0-0|0-0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|
|Christian Wood|00:00|0|0-0|0-0|0-0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|
**[](/DEN) Denver Nuggets**|**MIN**|**PTS**|**FGM-A**|**3PM-A**|**FTM-A**|**ORB**|**DRB**|**REB**|**AST**|**STL**|**BLK**|**TO**|**PF**|**±**|
|Michael Porter Jr.^SF|37:24|19|8-15|3-7|0-0|1|7|8|0|1|2|0|1|10|
|Aaron Gordon^PF|31:54|12|5-11|0-3|2-2|6|5|11|7|0|0|1|2|20|
|Nikola Jokic^C|39:11|32|15-23|1-3|1-2|3|9|12|7|2|0|0|3|14|
|Kentavious Caldwell-Pope^SG|36:46|12|4-11|4-10|0-0|0|2|2|1|3|0|0|3|14|
|Jamal Murray^PG|38:47|22|9-24|4-9|0-0|1|5|6|10|0|1|0|1|9|
|Peyton Watson|13:40|8|3-6|2-4|0-0|1|0|1|0|0|0|2|3|-6|
|Christian Braun|17:48|2|1-5|0-2|0-0|2|3|5|0|0|0|0|2|-3|
|Reggie Jackson|09:01|3|1-4|1-2|0-0|0|1|1|2|0|0|1|2|2|
|Justin Holiday|05:52|0|0-2|0-2|0-0|1|0|1|0|0|0|0|0|-2|
|DeAndre Jordan|08:37|4|1-1|0-0|2-2|0|2|2|0|1|1|0|3|-3|
|Zeke Nnaji|00:00|0|0-0|0-0|0-0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|
|Jalen Pickett|00:00|0|0-0|0-0|0-0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|
|Julian Strawther|00:00|0|0-0|0-0|0-0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|
|Hunter Tyson|00:00|0|0-0|0-0|0-0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|
|Vlatko Cancar|00:00|0|0-0|0-0|0-0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|
by Nyhrox
42 Comments
Every Lakers fan on r/nba going into this series: “If D’Angelo Russell can just hit 3s at his season average clip we have a good chance to win this!”
D’lo: *Shits pants*
How does LeBron only take one shot at attempt in the entire fourth quarter?
That comeback in the 3rd, and staying in control the rest of the way, is what you’d expect from a championship team.
Let’s see if the Lakers can keep things interesting.
Edit: Q2 comeback before taking the lead in Q3
Lakers were up by 2 at half time. They figured the Nuggets out. They got em right where they want them.
Jokic just bounces from being an immovable object to being an unstoppable force on the fly
Yeah Jokic figured out basketball
Every time the Nuggets show legitimate vulnerability they flip a switch and become the 2014 Spurs on crack and it’s incredible to watch every time it happens
Bron legs were legitimately COOKED after the 3rd. He stood in the corner the whole 4th Q.
Thank god for the Nuggets that their MVP showed up.
I, of course, am talking about Playoff D Lo
When Lakers went up 12, I thought this time it might be different. Lol.
Russell needs to be a lot better if Lakers are to have any chance. Dlo basically sold this game with some terrible shots.
Also, KCP might be the best role player in the league.
Lakers were up 10 at one point. Major moral victory there. 3 more to come.
Points in the paint: Lakers – 48 – Nuggets – 64
FTs: Lakers – 19 – Nuggets – 6
Lakers lost by >10 they can’t even claim a moral victory 😩
I know its only Game 1, but this looks the same as last year. Nuggets in 5
AD played about as good of D as you can this game, but Jokic is inevitable man, he just does everything right.
Playoff D’lo has arrived just in time. He better bring it up in game 2 or he’s not getting back on the plane to LA.
Welcome to NikoL.A.
Gonna be another competitive sweep
First time watching the game with the live thread. Damn are you guys reactionary as fuck lol
I’m just here for the Dlo slander
I know it’s just one game but it’s really, really hard to see anyone beating this Denver team if they stay healthy.
The Lakers played legitimately good for most of the game, shot 49% for the game, but Denver just turned a switch on and nothing mattered anymore.
there’s the D’lo we’ve all come to know and love.
Dread it, run from it, playoff D’Lo arrives all the same.
man I can’t imagine how good it must feel for the longtime Nuggets fans who watched the Lakers torment them in the playoffs for years, to now see their team just having complete and total ownership of that franchise
Jokic is a different animal and the same beast
Who was that one Nuggets fan in the thread who said they’d win by double digits back when they were down by 12?
Unforgiving. The lightning is coming.
AD showed up, but man, besides LeBron none of the lakers showed up. Shoutout to the Nuggets as well, Jokic, Murray, Porter and D lo were big tonight
The MVP with only 2 FTs btw
19-8-0.
Michael “Possesion ends here” Porter Jr.
Can’t believe the lakers played such good defense they didn’t give away any FTs in that second half, why don’t other teams just do this?
Jokic’s whistle is crazy. Davis is allowed to molest him and he just does not get a free throw.
This team is just too fucking great man. Even before they won a chip it was hard to rattle them. Now it’s impossible.
Jokic is seriously undeniable. He’s the best in the world. It’s Jokic and then everyone else until someone takes that from him. Which I don’t know if many people can.
2 Jokic dunks!! League fucked
Jokic is inevitable.
Denver is probably the only team that can offset +10 FT differential that Lakers have without sweating.
AG is Mr. Nugget but KCP is the reason that we go on these runs to flip games. His steals and 3’s make for multiple separate 4-6 point swings a game. Idk if he’ll ever get DPOY but I loved when the whole team was campaigning for it cause he’s our defensive MVP for sure
The Nuggets are genuinely one of the most clutch teams I’ve seen in quite a few years. When you keep it competitive throughout the first half, they wake up in the third quarter and just go on crazy scoring runs.
Then, in the 4th quarter, you make a little run, but they hit clutch shots of their own and then you’re down by double digits and it’s game over. The margin of error against them is also so small; missed bunnies/turnovers and wide open bricks are so demoralizing against them.
The lakers constant free throw advantage will never not be bizarre to me.
Playing deandre jordan for 9 minutes is mad disrespectful. But lakers only scoring 3 more points in dj minutes is worse.
Lakers paid Gabe Vincent $33 million to shoot 10% from 3 with no defense.
Westbrook would’ve changed the game.
Jokic: I used to dominate the lakers. I still do, but I used to, too.